Engineering Dad 🔧🌍🇯🇪

Engineer, Inventor, Dad, STEM Educator, Philosopher, Stoic, Knight of Camelot | Opinions are (mostly) my own. "You can never have too many drill bits."

[Engineering Dad 🔧🌍🇯🇪 @eng_dad]

Engineer since I was knee high. Invented motorised plank of wood aged 8 with spare RC motors, a whole lot of D cells, WD40 and duct tape. Often found randomly bringing stuff together to make inanimate objects move. Occasionally also do the same with people, reluctantly.

[Engineering Dad 🔧🌍🇯🇪 @eng_dad]

@A1an_M @davidyelland Also, "the algorithm" doesn't work like that and programming it in such a way is unlikely to yield this sort of conspiratorial junk. YouTube and TikTok and Instagram offer up far more junk but I don't see them being singled out.

[Engineering Dad 🔧🌍🇯🇪 @eng_dad]

@appears_mental @BurnsideWasTosh What area would that be? Essex?

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

Martin Luther King: “I have a dream that one day my children will not be judged by the colour of their skin.”

British police: “I don’t think so, mate.”

[Engineering Dad 🔧🌍🇯🇪 @eng_dad]

@ReviewsPossum Sachets of pepper however are legal. As a seasoning professional one should always carry some.

[Engineering Dad 🔧🌍🇯🇪 @eng_dad]

@vulpine2020 Salaries for specialists are now at junk levels. If you're young, do yourself a favour and move to the US. There at least you have half a chance of earning what you're worth.

[Engineering Dad 🔧🌍🇯🇪 @eng_dad]

Utterly insane salaries for experienced programmers doing high skilled low level logic systems. The UK is a basket case.

[Adam Taylor @ATaylorFPGA]

FPGA Engineering Salaries UK update. Received two emails from recruiters this morning

FPGA Engineer One - Looks to be junior, experience in AI on FPGA Drone Swarms etc Wants £30K

FPGA Engineer Two - 5 plus years, low latency, Sat Coms, several life cycle FPGA designs. Wants £55K

Why are highly skilled people asking for such low salaries. This country is done, a little ambition and they could make that per month.

[Engineering Dad 🔧🌍🇯🇪 @eng_dad]

@RichardJMurphy Going to call bullshit on this one. The vast majority were there to protest directly at the police and to pay respects to the murdered boy. Police should have been sensible and kept a low profile. Instead, their attitude was for a fight. No shops were looted or cars set on fire.

[Alan @A1an_M]

@PippaCrerar Is he the same man who kneeled following the death of an American man, trying to politicise his death and bring America's racial divisions to the UK?

Or was that a different Keir Starmer?

[Engineering Dad 🔧🌍🇯🇪 @eng_dad]

@donmcgowan Turning the playing field upside down isn't levelling it.

[Engineering Dad 🔧🌍🇯🇪 @eng_dad]

I find it kind of astonishing that people can't understand that the issue is actually one and the same.

[Miss Chief 🤨 @Midge1415]

I find it kind of astonishing that people who were enraged about police officers being attacked at Manchester Airport went to Southampton last night to erm….attack police officers 🤔

[DHH @dhh]

We once had to contend with calls for a "diversity consultant" who was meant to come hunt for racism at 37s. Not because anyone had ever seen or heard of any, but because it could all have been hidden or internalized. Real witch doctor madness era.

[Engineering Dad 🔧🌍🇯🇪 @eng_dad]

@BurnsideWasTosh https://t.co/mWKwh6s76M

[Engineering Dad 🔧🌍🇯🇪 @eng_dad]

By the BBC's measurements this was 2.5 times more peaceful than a recent anti-facist protest in London.

[Engineering Dad 🔧🌍🇯🇪 @eng_dad]

@alexhrbfc @LoftusSteve If you watch the episode you'll see that he mentions wealthy people buying farms, himself included, but that Reeve's vendetta against success has just hurt British farmers who, when you take away the fact that the value is all in the tools of production have less than zero.

[Engineering Dad 🔧🌍🇯🇪 @eng_dad]

@DuxVul I'll do it for that if I get to reverse all of the Making Tax Digital bollocks.

[Engineering Dad 🔧🌍🇯🇪 @eng_dad]

By the BBC's measurements this was 2.5 times more peaceful than a recent anti-facist protest in London.

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: 11 officers were injured during last nights riots in Southampton

[Christopher Talbot @Lord_Talbot64]

I don't think they were mate.

[Thomas H. 💙 @THemingford]

Britain's biggest problem isn't that people have stopped working hard.

It's that working hard no longer guarantees the security, stability and quality of life it once did.

More people recognise that every day now.

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

I never know what colour bin to throw, so I wait until the neighbours start throwing theirs

[Paul @AngloBrython]

@thesundaysport I have so many now I'm a gatling bin gun.

[Engineering Dad 🔧🌍🇯🇪 @eng_dad]

@myownwinters @thesundaysport Every 6 months from 2030. Net zero bins.